The First Checklist

[Let'sgoflying!]

Who came up with the idea of a pilot's checklist, anyone know?

The following two site seem to agree with its origin, are they on the mark?

http://www.ww2hc.org/emailarchives/2011/checklistorigin.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Model_299

 

[Ddayle]

I thought the first check list was #1. Get in. #2. sit down. #3. Shut up. #4. Hang on. Dave

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Who came up with the idea of a pilot's checklist, anyone know?

The following two site seem to agree with its origin, are they on the mark?

http://www.ww2hc.org/emailarchives/2011/checklistorigin.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Model_299

This one agrees, too.

http://www.atchistory.org/History/checklst.htm

 

[fgcason]

I thought the first check list was #1. Get in. #2. sit down. #3. Shut up. #4. Hang on. Dave

Ground Bad. Sky Good. Jump. -- First successful flight of a living creature.

 

[Yellowbird]

Can't find an online video extract, but Gert Frobe as a German Colonel teaching his subordinate (and himself) how to fly in "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines":

Captain Rumpelstoss: But... how will I learn to fly, Herr Colonel?
Colonel Manfred von Holstein: The way we do everything in the German army: from the book of instructions.

[Reading from flight instruction manual]
Colonel Manfred von Holstein: Step one: sit down.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I thought the first check list was #1. Get in. #2. sit down. #3. Shut up. #4. Hang on. Dave

That one was too long for me. So, here's the custom checklist I came up with:


TIRES........KICK
FIRES.......LIGHT